3 October
PAA Harvest Moon
Semogue 610 boar
Merkur Progress (3)
Gillette Nacet (1)
Lucky Tiger AS
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Two new products today, brush and soap. The brush, after a couple of trial lathers over the past days, disappointed in the ways only a Semogue boar brush can. The brush is beautiful to me, but, after what appeared to be a good initial loading and lather on the face, the lather died in the brush before the second pass. The brush also shed a further few hairs during the shave. My experience with Semogue boar bushes has always been the same. I have never managed to keep one for more than a month, due to the immense frustration with the thing, but I keep hoping. Despite this the shave went well, the lather was good from the PAA soap but the scent was definitely underwhelming, I couldn't smell much more than soap. The post shave skin conditioning, on the other hand, was first rate. Really close, comfortable two pass shave from the Progress as usual, so not all was lost.
On a brighter note on holiday for a week tomorrow. This is my holiday kit.